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PancakeTransmission posted:Nothing more infuriating than hearing someone breathing into their mic, let alone hearing the open office chatter. Luckily, anyone in SfB can mute others (at least in our setup). But then they fumble with the physical mute switch while people are trying to tell them they're muted on Skype instead. Just hot mic a conference call when you're taking a poo poo. Live brave.
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Methanar posted:The S part of snmp is a lie
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Just a friendly service announcement: Don't buy an HPE Apollo 4510 Gen10 storage server. I repeat: Don't buy this absolute piece of garbage that will make you want to end it all. Long story short, two of them, brand new, set up and configured, were then shipped off to two geographically distinct datacentres, where they worked for a couple of weeks, before one of their RAID controllers or backplanes or whatever failed. Say goodbye to your RAID array (luckily, the data isn't affected, so when you replace all the parts, you can get it back again). Soon after, the other server experiences the exact same failure! Yay, it's not like these were used for a mission-critical backup system or anything, no sir. But OK, that's stressful and lovely, but I guess they were shipped with a bad batch of controllers or backplanes or cables or whatever. Both of them now have new controllers, backplanes and cables. Couple of weeks later? One of them fails again! Say goodbye to your RAID array! Soon after? The other machine experiences the exact same failure! Hope you didn't want access to your backups, or run any new backups. Yes, that's FOUR failures across two brand new servers, in different cites, the same goddamn failure each time, within a MONTH. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Mar 21, 2019 |
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Well, I apparently have four hours of video interviews on Monday  I suppose good news is that they wouldn’t be spending an hour of 4 people’s (including the CFO) time if they weren’t very interested in me.
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In 9 months Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 will be end of life.
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lampey posted:Server 2008 R2 My co-worker has ticket where someone is just now upgrading from Server 2003 
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Our legacy domain is on 2003. Thank god it's in a VM, since Microsoft engineering has told us straight out that if it reboots, there's no guarantee it comes back up and they aren't helping.
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Don't worry. You can shell out extra $$$ for support contracts that go beyond end of life.
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mllaneza posted:Our legacy domain is on 2003. Thank god it's in a VM, since Microsoft engineering has told us straight out that if it reboots, there's no guarantee it comes back up and they aren't helping. How so?
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I liked the Axis cameras I worked with and the axis device manager is very nice for managing a larger number of cameras. However we used Ocularis for our video management system.
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Bonzo posted:My co-worker has ticket where someone is just now upgrading from Server 2003 yeah well our oracle server runs 2000. and my coworker left it in the DMZ overnight during some FW changes at our head-end thinking it'd be no big deal but....
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So my boss just bought a couple of box fans and is bringing in his leaf blower. His plan is to blow all the construction dust off of everything (that we've already spent all week cleaning) and the box fans that are 2/3 blocked by the windows that aren't big enough, is going to magically get sucked out the egress windows that are covered on top with a plastic cover. I told him twice that this isn't going to work so I've done my due diligence. I'm sure we're going to have to close the helpdesk again and spend another week cleaning off all the poo poo we just cleaned. I see only good things coming from this 
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Defenestrategy posted:Boss wants me to make a script to turn a PDU off and on repeatedly for testing a widget or something, hopefully I could use bash or something, but again I have no clue what I'm doing and google fu'ing using SNMP for thing yields not great looking tutorials. Roughly, grab the MIB from: https://www.apc.com/ca/en/faqs/FA156048/ copy it to your working directory, then to find your strings: snmpwalk -v1 +M. -c mycommunity myhostip 1 then snmpset -v1 +M. -c mycommunity myhostip apc.switchstate.port.5="off"
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Bonzo posted:How so? Too complicated to rebuild, too long in service to make rebooting a joy, and at this point they're 3.5 years out of support.
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I have done desktop support for over two years. I've learned that while I can fake it with people, the interactions tire me and the job leaves me exhausted during the week when I come home. At this point I'm strongly considering just becoming a programmer. It will set my pay back at first but at least I'll be happier not trying to be something I'm not all day. I'm unsure though because I'm wondering what life is like for a network engineer or anyone on the admin level. I'd rather not completely change course on my career. I have a CCNA and degree. What's pushing this for me is management wants me to step up and lead. I'm currently (recently revealed to me this week) now going to be effectively a goddamn IT manager which is not any part of my plan. I am not a leader, it will not happen; I don't have it in me. I will say so today. I'm suddenly feeling like I'm in the wrong field. But maybe I just need to work harder to get into a network engineer role and out of any level of helpdesk ASAP? I have no desire for management I've learned that clearly this past few weeks. As a network engineer or Network admin. Are there fewer client interactions? Fewer people and internal politics I'd have to deal with? I like working with a team but I'm not a salesperson and wish to avoid company politics if I can. Really want to get away from that! That's been my greatest goal. To get away from the customer care and politics and just work on technology. 
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You will never escape company politics, no matter where you are. Anecdotal experience incoming! "The Network" gets blamed for everything (in some cases it IS deserved more on that later), so your server/storage/whatever teams will point the finger at you and then sit back in their chairs while you prove it's not your problem instead of everyone looking into their area of responsibility to narrow down where the issue exists. I've also had a lot of bad experiences with internal network teams doing dumb poo poo and being combative (possibly due to the above) when the problem was CLEARLY caused by them, I have had the below exchange essentially verbatim: "Hey, network, my servers can't reach the internet and I see the routing is completely different than it should be, our ingress interface on the firewall is correct but egress from the wrong interface and go to a router for X network" Nah security is causing your internet issues "What, no, that's not possible, routing is different and you control that" No, security made changes earlier at the firewall "The firewall is in transparent mode, your routing is incorrect!" Log ticket with security, they caused the problem *3 hours later it magically gets fixed* Could it be because one of you was changing default routes somewhere and they propagated to places you didn't intend? NAH MF_James fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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I have a co-worker who refuses to maximize any of his desktop windows. At first, I kind of thought this was dumb but after a while it sort of makes sense? Granted, we all have a 2x24" monitor setup. Wasn't there also a time in the past where OS X didn't have a maximize option on windows?
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Tab8715 posted:I have a co-worker who refuses to maximize any of his desktop windows. At first, I kind of thought this was dumb but after a while it sort of makes sense? Granted, we all have a 2x24" monitor setup. Wasn't there also a time in the past where OS X didn't have a maximize option on windows? I rarely maximize windows and if something is off screen because it won’t resize I will blame the application or site, not my work flow. I don’t need to look at oceans of white space and would like to see more than 2 things at a time.
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The reason I got into networks was because I didn't want to have to do poo poo calls and talk to users, and I noticed our network engineer barely did any. It back fired after I got hired for the internal junior position and a few months later the senior engineer moved away, I had basically no experience except a useless Network+ cert. They tried and failed to hire a replacement. The whole time I was doing the calls for a 4500+ user organisation and fixing poo poo that hadn't been working right for years. After a year and a half of that they gave up trying to recruit a senior, and eventually offered it to me (it's amazing how quickly you can learn when you're absolutely hosed and have nobody to help you). Then eventually they recruited me a junior who does all the calls  . I only do ones he can't finish or when he's on annual leave. I got an extra boost when they hired an IT Project Manager/Admin, and now he handles all the bullshit admin work on network projects. I do design, config, and talking to third party suppliers when necessary, but as infrequently as possible. I also argued a lot that sending the senior or only network engineer to do certain poo poo was horribly inefficient, when it could easily be done by our on-site engineers from a written guide or over the phone.
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With the proliferation of large, widescreen monitors, and having 2+ at a time, I rarely maximize but I do use window snapping to do side-by-side so I'll generally have 2 things on each screen.
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I have a 34" ultrawide monitor and use a tool that will snap windows to 1/3 of the screen. I don't remember the last time I maximized an application on purpose, unless it was an IDE or terminal emulator that was itself containing a lot of panes.
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Vulture Culture posted:I have a 34" ultrawide monitor and use a tool that will snap windows to 1/3 of the screen. I don't remember the last time I maximized an application on purpose, unless it was an IDE or terminal emulator that was itself containing a lot of panes. What tool is that? I used to like winsplit revolution a lot but its no longer updated. Coredump fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Yeah, would also be interested in knowing what tool that is. I have an LG monitor and last I tried their screen splitting software it was terrible. Right now I just snap left or right, but when I'm just using it as one monitor and surfing the web I like to have it positioned in the center third or so, but I hate dragging and resizing windows. Which ah... is one reason I find people who work with non-maximized windows to be weirdos.
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Have y'all seen Sizer?
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Coredump posted:What tool is that? I used to like winsplit revolution a lot but its not longer updated.
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poo poo pissing me off: New director starts next week. She's *NEVER* managed an IT operations team before. Zero experience with security. Trying to just roll with the vision here, but we're a small enough department that I'm having a hard time seeing how a non-technical director is a good idea. Some idiot uploaded 4gb of data to a personal dropbox account, now I get to go find out what it was.
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MF_James posted:You will never escape company politics, no matter where you are. Dealing with company politics is an issue for a lot of technical people. You can't escape it, and will need to learn how to "play the game". Most of the folks on my team are like this, but we realized we have to play the game now. We never toot our own horn, try to fly under the radar, but then watch other teams get promotions, additional funding, give presentations the execs eat up, etc.
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Tab8715 posted:I have a co-worker who refuses to maximize any of his desktop windows. At first, I kind of thought this was dumb but after a while it sort of makes sense? Granted, we all have a 2x24" monitor setup. Wasn't there also a time in the past where OS X didn't have a maximize option on windows? There's a reason newspapers and magazines usually divide pages in to multiple columns, it's a lot easier to read when it's narrow enough for your eyes to scan across without significant movement. This is also why you'll notice a lot of web sites designed around long articles will enforce a maximum width on the content. You can maximize the window on an ultrawide but the text will still stick to a reasonable width column in the middle. You may have also heard of people using an additional monitor in portrait mode to read documents or other vertically-oriented content (like forum threads). Again, same principle. Width is being wasted in that use, so why not gain some height instead? And yes, Mac OS has had a different concept where the button a Windows user would expect to maximize the window instead asks the app to fit it to the content. That's actually where I picked up the habit, I used to be a maximizer but I had a series of Mac laptops and eventually decided to stop fighting it, then realized it was better this way. Now, especially with an ultrawide desktop display, it's very rare that I maximize anything unless it just won't fit on the screen otherwise.
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Because of an audit, we have figured out one of our environment safety specialists doesn't have an ad account or computer. No email, no phone, and he has been and employee of 3 years. What are the odds that he has actually done any work in the last 3 years? He has been getting a paycheck, I just confirmed it.
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Sickening posted:Because of an audit, we have figured out one of our environment safety specialists doesn't have an ad account or computer. No email, no phone, and he has been and employee of 3 years. Living the dream
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Sickening posted:Because of an audit, we have figured out one of our environment safety specialists doesn't have an ad account or computer. No email, no phone, and he has been and employee of 3 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz9810Y7ZRw
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Sickening posted:Because of an audit, we have figured out one of our environment safety specialists doesn't have an ad account or computer. No email, no phone, and he has been and employee of 3 years. Has he just been using the last guys' pc and login or sharing. If not then lmao he's been paid to do nothing for 3 years.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Has he just been using the last guys' pc and login or sharing. If not then lmao he's been paid to do nothing for 3 years. This guy is in Europe at one of our facilities so the time difference is impeding my investigation atm.
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Internet Explorer posted:Yeah, would also be interested in knowing what tool that is. I have an LG monitor and last I tried their screen splitting software it was terrible. Right now I just snap left or right, but when I'm just using it as one monitor and surfing the web I like to have it positioned in the center third or so, but I hate dragging and resizing windows. Which ah... is one reason I find people who work with non-maximized windows to be weirdos. Auto hotkey can do that.
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Oh snap, I haven't touched AHK in a long time. Will check it out. Thanks!
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Sickening posted:Because of an audit, we have figured out one of our environment safety specialists doesn't have an ad account or computer. No email, no phone, and he has been and employee of 3 years. That person achieved that which all of us have always wanted, and now you're going to ruin it for them? You're heartless, Sickening; heartless.
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AGM is the worst OS to work with, prove me wrong IT thread.
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Got an official offer for my second choice.
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 Nice, have you heard anything from your first choice?
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Got an official offer for my second choice. That's awesome. Congrats! I know it's been a bumpy road and I'm super happy for you.
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